topic Re: moving files in Operating System - HP-UX

moving files

Aleksandar Vujevic — Wed, 05 May 2004 03:02:54 GMT

I want to move all html-files for a given subtree one directory up.

For example:
mv ./bla/dir1/subdir1/*.html ./bla/dir1/
mv ./bla/dir2/subdir2/*.html ./bla/dir2/
mv ./bla/dir2/subdir2/1/*.html ./bla/dir2/subdir2/
...

I have tried the following:

find . -name *.html|xargs -i -p mv {} ../{}
(-p for interactivity)

which does not work (of course). The output is:
mv ./bla/dir1/subdir1/doc1.html .././bla/dir1/subdir1/*.html ?...

Not beeing familiar with awk or sed I'd like to know how to replace the string before the last slash to "..".

Or is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks,
Aleks

Re: moving files

Bharat Katkar — Wed, 05 May 2004 03:39:13 GMT

Does this command works individualy for you:
mv ./bla/dir1/subdir1/*.html ./bla/dir1/

and Also What you are expecting exactly!! whether you want to move that same in one single command

Re: moving files

Nicolas Dumeige — Wed, 05 May 2004 03:48:30 GMT

Hello Alexs,

Can get xargs to work either! Anyway, test this :

find . -name '*.html' | while read line
do
echo mv $line `dirname $line | sed -e 's@\/[^\/]*$@@'`
done

Cheers

Nicolas

Re: moving files

Bernhard Mueller — Wed, 05 May 2004 04:37:29 GMT

Aleks,

what about
cd /
find /path/to/subdir -type d | while read dir
do
cd $dir
mv *.html ..
cd /
done

Regards,
Bernhard

Re: moving files

Aleksandar Vujevic — Wed, 05 May 2004 05:01:15 GMT

Thanks for your replies!

With the hints from you I made the following script ($1 being the wanted files(s) ):

CUR_DIR=`pwd`
# Remove . from results of find
FILES=`find . -name $1 | cut -c 2-`

for file in $FILES
do
# Construct absolute path
file=$CUR_DIR$file

cd `dirname $file`
mv `basename $file` ../
done
cd $CUR_DIR

Aleks